teh phelsp came to a mass gay marriage in DC when it became legal I and a group of kids marched up there – many of the kids doing same sex kissing, I and a few others holding our crotches and spitting on the ground

YOu dont know what the words hate and slurs mean until I did this . then the chiden hearted pieces of poo jumped in their car and ran away

I’ve also challended with simple words eg the local catholic secretary to the bishops. Nothing vile, just told them they were wrong and evil.

she just walked away. It shows how brainwashed they are with the church’s poo that they cant even stand to have a polte conversation.
Diederot had it right when he said during the french revoution
strangle all the ings with the guts of the priests
pity we ran out of kings so the priesthood survvived.

When it became known that Phelpes and WBC were going to protest at the funeral of Mathew Shepard people were outraged. A plan was put into place to have rows of people dressed as angels who would raise their arms as wings and block WBC from view and prevent his family being distressed by their presence and banners.

The can be viewed seen by viewing the Mathew Shepard story! It was a beautiful gesture to make by a creative and thoughtful group of people.

This is the only example (sadly) of which I am aware to block all sight and presence of WBC during a funeral protest.

That’s what they want. Seriously, they’re lawyers that are trolling people into doing something to them that they can sue for. It’s just like Sarah Pain and Nick Griffin- ignore them and they’ll go away.

What a disgrace the Phelps family is. I watched Louis Theroux’s exposure of them on our Tv the other night. But what made me really sad was the 11 children and grand-children of the mad patriarch being so brain-washed to the point I would have thought, could be prosecuted as child abuse.

The Westboro Baptist Church are scum. How would they like it if one of THEIR funerals got picketed. I would like to mention here the Patriot Guard Riders, an American motorcycle organisation who formed to oppose the picketing of US military funerals by the WBC. They try to prevent WBC members from accessing the mourners and rev their engines to drown out their hateful chants. I don’t know the Patriot Guard Riders views regarding LGBT issues but at least they represent the decent people of America. God hates the Westboro Baptist Church.

Especially given that the Westboro action – which was the same as they (sickeningly) do at every single military funeral – was almost entirely nullified by over a thousand opponents and local people, and had little effect, whereas the real story on this woman is missed. Its another occasion upon which to worry about L&G journalism, not least since this site seems heading to be the largest international LGT news site.

This was the first married L or G US service-person to die in action. But, despite the end of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, the US Army hadn’t bothered to figure how to handle such an event. Instead they followed DOMA to the letter, and more, and completely erased all mention of her married status, and her wife, in their released information,whereas the wives of those killed beside her were all honoured. This was then compounded by the national news agency (AP) simply reproducing that information.

But there’s more, because DOMA also denies her wife survivor benefits, and

the Army abided by DOMA to the extent of not even treating her as the first person to be informed of the death, or the person first asked to identity the body. Grief counseling is also denied.

Of course this discrimination – shocking to us – would have come as no surprise to Tracy Dice (http://photo.fayobserver.com/?ssid=280&pid=5424&sid=9&#player), because she was already denied access to Sgt Johnson’s military healthcare coverage, to the low-priced service-person’s shopping outlets, to couples’ housing, to relocation assistance or retraining. She was excluded from official social events for families too.

Should this tragic death and the exposure of the discrimination not be the occasion for the start of outrage to end it?

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